ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,794, issued on May 20, was assigned to Alteryx Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Analytics workflow integrated with logic control" was invented by Jeff Arnold (Arvada, Colo.) and Adam David Riley (Orwell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workflow includes a sequence of tools and a logic controller. A data file is input into the workflow and processed by the tools. A log file and a metadata file are generated for a tool. The log file includes data describing events that occurred during the operation of the tool in the processing of the data file. The metadata file includes data generated from the performance of the data analytics ...